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From Longman Dictionary

praying ˈmantis (also mantis)

a large insect that eats other insects

Example

Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis

I watched with interest – it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something

He was very tall, perhaps six foot five, all elbow and forearm, like an enormous ginger praying mantis

For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis, frozen there in the glass, he wrote

We learned the swift, circular dance of the praying mantis